Got milk?

I didn't and it sure made one heck of a frustrating day for me. Yesterday I took the kids to mass with my parents. They were up since 7am and mass was 11am-12:15 so Micah was sooo ready for his nap. He was asking for milk while we were in church and I didn't have any. I just gave him some before we left the house and it was the last of the carton. Ong went out to the car and got him the juice and water but...nope. Only milk would do and he was crying so loud I had to leave in the middle of service. I drove hime to QT and realized that in my rush to get the kids ready this morning I left my purse at home so I called Lam to meet me at the gas station (he was at the carlot). We bought a small bottle of milk but he wouldn't take it out of his sippy cup either so there goes another crying spout. Lam bought him a tootsie roll sucker & that finally made him stop crying for a little so the only solution was for me to drive all the way back home to get the bottle then back to church for the new years celebration after mass. When he woke up from his short nap he was all happy again and dancing to the music. Kenzie was scared of the dragons but after I explained to her they were people dragons and it was just a costume she was okay...but still scared.

Aunt Kim and Uncle Ryan mailed their tax returns for me to file and gave us some t-shirts from their trip to New York. The kids got some huge pencils and Kenzie got her Tasha that she's been wanting since Christmas. We hung up the Ikea tubular mesh organizer and stuck each of the backyardigans into their own little sleeping spot.

New Layouts

I've only scrapped like one day out of this whole week and I'm just now getting the chance to upload. The second layout is from my class at NYCScraps - scrap your everyday life except I"m using it to catch up on my gazillion and one christmas photos. The last layout was a pagemaps sketch.

Tet

Tet = Chinese New Years...which is today!

I am horrible at speaking Vietnamese even though I was born there and am getting worse and worse at it since I never speak it to anyone besides my parents and sometimes aunts and uncles. I'm like a one year foreign language student. I understand & speak just enough basics to get by. Since today is New Years we are supposed to call all the relatives and wish them well. I lost my cheat sheet, the one my mom wrote for me a couple years ago so thank goodness for GOOGLE and the world wide web! At least I know how to read vietnamese. Here is the greeting I used and hopefully it'll still be saved here for when I need to refer to it next year!

"Năm mới con chúc thanh cong, suc khoe, binh anh, nhat la hanh phuc trong nam moi va suot doi"

ban ;friend
gia dinh [pronounced "yah dinh"or "za dinh"]; family
va; and
thanh cong; success
suc khoe[ pronounced "su quair"]; health
binh anh; peace
nhat la; esspecially
hanh phuc; happyness
trong; within
nam moi; new year[ litterally -"year new"]
va suot doi; and throughout [their] lifes..

AKA: My store

Kenzie is 4 weeks shy of turning 3 years old and she is really good at recognizing streets and places. She knows the way to gymnastics. She knows the way to Grandpa's car lot. She knows the way to our church. And this morning she said the funniest thing. We drove by scrapfunattic and she says "That's yours Mommy" LOL! Now it's known as "my" store. I did just take her there last night to buy all the diva prizes I'm giving away for the challenges at the scrap-room.

I'm sick mommy

This was the verse I heard a dozen times from like 1am til 4am. Here's a recap of my night:

8:30pm - Just got home, showered & I crashed in Micah's room with both kids
1:30am - Micah wakes up wanting milk, which wakes Kenzie up telling me she's sick and wants medicine (husband is still snoring away)
2:00am - Both kids still awake, Micah wants to go downstairs & play so we do
2:30am - Kenzie gets a stomach ache so we sit in the bathroom together for awhile
3:00am - Bring them back to bed & turn on the DVD player for them
3:30am - I fell asleep but apparently Micah was still up, he woke me up when the DVD was done telling me to "play, play" again.
4:00am - Kenzie wakes up crying that she's hot and sick (she is burning up) I bring her to our bed and she sleeps with Lam
6:30am - alarm rings and it's time to get ready for work

I'm really rethinking my long term goals of having a 3rd child someday.

Superbowl Weekend

So I didn't watch any of the superbowl. Not even the commercials. We went over to Lam's friend's house for the party but while he was downstairs with the guys watching the game, I was upstairs with the wives watching the kids.

Saturday I went over to mom's to deliver some orchids in celebration of chinese new year's this week. Every year I seem to do something wrong. Last year I made the mistake of buying a purple mum, purple is bad luck I find out...flowers need to be white or red or yellow. I also gave the candy trays, and they said no one eats those anymore. So this year I got some white orchids from Dillons but most of them had one or two buds that were wilted. I have two kids in tow with me at all times, I didn't have time to search Wichita for some better looking plants but my parents made the effort in telling me next time go to Thai Binh or even Lowes for some better ones. Oh well.

Had my annual women's wellness appt this morning then had lunch at the Old Mill Tasty Shop with some g/f's to plan Amy's bridal shower coming up in June. Her rock is huge! And the wedding invitation list is 650, holy cow, this will be one big shindig!

Cards

I'm not a card maker. Nope...I don't know why, it should be just as easy as doing a layout but I have the hardest time with it. I've rec'd a lot of handmade cards from my scrap friends and really enjoy getting them so I think I'm going to make the effort to make more this year. I was asked to join a card swap and February was our first month. We send out homemade cards to 6-7 different people each month and get that many in return from different people. This month's theme was Love, marriage, or anniversary. Here's my card which will go postal tomorrow! The girls in the swap have set up a blog site where we can see all of our creations here at Card chicks